Gm 10 bolt or dana 60

[Rhino6678]

i found a truck pretty cheap the other day for a grand with 38's and wat not he tells me its a dana 60 and he has bought parts for a dana 60 for it but after i looked at it looks like a 8 lug 10 bolt i need a lil help

 

[ShiftyK5]

Kinda looks like a 10b to me

 

[pauly383]

Kinda looks like a 10b to me

Thats because it is

Dana 60 is like a short man casket lid for a cover . And has bolts instead of u-bolts next to the pumpkin . As well as kingpins instead of balljoints .

 

[Rhino6678]

but for a 1000 its got 14b ff in the rear ramsy 12000lbs on the front np208, sm465, 350, 38 tsl's

 

[pauly383]

I didn't say not to buy the whole truck , you can use it whole or part and get your money out of it

 

[Rhino6678]

yea ur right ima offer him 900 for it

 

[Rhino6678]

thnx guys

 

[chevy wrangler]

pics when you get it

 

[Rhino6678]

o i will but ima just strip everything off of it and put it on my 87, but heres a good one , wats stronger dana 44 or gm 10 bolt?>

 

[pauly383]

No real strength benefit to either over the other . I'd use the 10 bolt because there are more years of trucks to pick parts off of .

 

[RockinChevy]

Just make sure you count the splines on the 10bolt axleshafts before you go out looking for spares. There are 2 counts, 28 and 30 splines. 81-87 has 28, 88-91 has 30.
Just giving you a heads up, I had a bit of trouble looking for the correct ones for my 90.

I think that setup will be fine, I'm running the same setup.

 

[Rhino6678]

yea now that means i have 3 gm10bolts , 1 8 lug and 2 6lug and a 8 lug dana 44